The old man looked into the distance and thought, "I'm afraid that the evil cultivator was killed more than four hundred years ago. ”

"Huh? Old age, what the hell is going on? I looked at him suspiciously.

"This evil cultivator will use the soul array in the cave to absorb the longevity of the mourners on the day of Tusi's burial, and then he will continue to use the soul array to enslave the souls of the dead and condense the evil qi to help him practice." The old man glanced at me, turned back and continued.

"That is, when he was cultivating here, a priest discovered what he had done, and the two should be on an equal footing. Although I don't know if that person fell, this evil cultivator died because of it. Naturally, the evil cultivators who lost their physical bodies would not give up easily, and continued to cultivate with the help of the yin and evil qi in the Soul Formation and the vitality they had absorbed, and after more than four hundred years, they became the ghost cultivators they saw in the cave yesterday. ”

"Oh! No wonder that thing hates Taoist priests so much! I said with a sudden realization.

"These are just speculations, and we will not have a chance to know the specifics again." The old man said lightly on the side, as if he was a little sympathetic to the evil cultivator.

"This evil cultivator really deserves to die, no, Toast deserves to die too." I said indignantly. The old man turned his head to look at me and said, "Xiaofeng, there is no absolute right or wrong in the world, only the cycle of cause and effect. Emperors may have killed countless people, but they also have other merits; Some people may be forced by circumstances, and some people may be driven by greed and make big mistakes. But there is never extreme evil and extreme good. When looking at things, we need to see both the positive and the negative. I nodded thoughtfully, not fully understanding what the old man said.

The old man didn't say anything more, and after a while, he said again: "Xiaofeng, after these days, are you still willing to worship me as a teacher?" When I heard the old man's words, I paused and said, "I do, but I don't know what the use of learning these is?" ”

"Learning the Tao naturally has its uses, one is to improve one's own faith, and the other is to have a means of earning a living. As for this matter, you can decide for yourself whether to make a move or not after you leave the school. The old man replied.

"Well, I get old."

"In that case, let's get ordained here!" The old man stood up and walked towards a flat area in the lower left.

There weren't many trees or weeds there, and the morning sun shone directly onto the land. I followed him, through the woods and grass, and downhill to the clearing.

The old man stood in the middle of the clearing, looking up at the blue sky. I also stood beside him and looked up at the sky.

"Fenglin, you kneel." The old man said. I was a little surprised to hear the old man call me by my name directly, and after reacting, I knelt down in front of him.

The old man leaned out of the way of my kneeling and came to my right and spoke.

"The full name of my gate is 'Zhongtian Ziwei Palace', which is the Heavenly Emperor of the Three Treasures of the Three Realms of the Void Nature, and the inheritance of the Dao system in the Gate of the Emperor of the Arctic of Zhongtian Ziwei. Zhongtian Ziwei Palace originated from the rebellion of the three sects, the three sects are 'people, interpretation, interception', and the last three sects are unified into 'Tao', so far the world's Taoist sect worships the three Qings, not divided into three sects. The three sects are one, the fate is exhausted, and the real person of Ziwei will be successful and soaring. The rest of the disciples are all taught by the real person, Zhongtian Ziwei Palace goes with the flow, does not accept disciples, and disciples do not stand on their own, so this method makes Zhongtian Ziwei Palace dissolve in the world, so there is only one palace master in our door, that is, 'Ziwei Zhenren'. The old man said slowly, I knelt on the ground and listened to him tell about Zhongtian Ziwei Palace, although my legs and feet felt numb, I didn't dare to interrupt him.

"There are three steps to enter the Zhongtian Ziwei Palace, one of which is to teach the scriptures: to practice the Ziwei Dao Method, the second is to teach the precepts: to obey the precepts of the palace gate, and the third is to teach the master of the palace to ascend to the heavens." The old man paused and continued.

"Fenglin listens to the teaching, and now I Dongyang Taoist people receive entry, should be diligent in cultivating the Dao Law, and abide by the precepts. Will you bow down to me? ”

"I do." It was difficult for the old man to fully understand what he said, but I replied without much thought.

"Kneel and listen to the precepts." I lay down, looked at the grass on the ground, and the old man continued: "When you enter the Zhongtian Ziwei Palace, you should keep the precepts as follows, precept one: do not kill living beings, precept two: do not act indiscriminately, precept three: do not disobey the master, precept four do not pass on the law without a precept, precept five....." The old man said a total of ten precepts, but I didn't understand all of them.

"Are you willing to keep the precepts of this sect?" The old man asked solemnly.

"Yes." I replied.

"That is, if you keep the precepts, you can enter this door, and now I give the way number: Nan Shengzi. Three bows to the master are completed! The old man stood in front of me and said.

I quickly got up and kowtowed, and after three I looked up at the old man.

"This is the crape myrtle Taoist scripture, and it needs to be practiced diligently in the future. Nan Shengzi, received the Taoist scriptures. He continued.

I stretched out my hands and took them from the old man's hand. Then I heard him say, "Little wind, get up." From now on, you are already my outer disciple. ”

"Thank you, old man." Hearing his tone return to normal, I was a little at a loss.

"Huh? Do you still call me old? ”

"Thank you, Master." I quickly changed my tune.

"Well, but you still call me Master in normal times. Xiaofeng, is there anything you want to ask now? Master said with a smile.

"I'm still thinking about what Master said just now, and I don't know where to start." I sat down on a stone next to me, rubbing my numb legs and talking.

Master looked at me and said, "It's okay, just ask when you want to." ”

"Master, why doesn't Patriarch Ziwei let Zhongtian Ziwei Palace grow?" After a while, I remembered what Master had just said about the situation in the Zhongtian Ziwei Palace.

Master also found a stone to sit down, then looked at the sky and said, "I also asked my master this question, and he explained. The Zhongtian Ziwei Palace was originally only established to resolve the rebellion of the three sects, so when the three sects were united, there was naturally no need for the Zhongtian Ziwei Palace to exist. However, I suspect that there were many sects at that time, and although they all agreed with the unity of the three sects, some people still had different intentions. Zhongtian Ziwei Palace's statement is outside, if it accepts disciples widely and starts a sect, wouldn't it be against the original intention. However, these are just my guesses, and as a disciple, I should naturally not question them. ”

"Master, can people really cultivate to become immortals?" Listening to these distant stories, I suddenly wanted to figure out this question.

"Haha, of course." Master said with a smile.

"Has Master seen it?" I asked. Master thought for a moment before saying, "I haven't seen it, I heard Master say before that the aura in the human world has gradually dried up, which has caused the Dao Dharma realm to be unable to be confirmed, and all cultivation has naturally stagnated. ”

"What is Reiki?" The first time I heard the term, I asked.

"Reiki refers to the aura of all living beings, which can be understood as an ambient breath. Since the beginning of industrial society, the ecology has been destroyed by humans, and the number of species has decreased year by year. I still remember that when I was a child, there were many wild animals in the mountains and forests, and now, when I look around, even squirrels and hares are extremely rare. Master said helplessly.

I nodded, thinking of the game I used to eat as a child, and I felt a little guilty in my heart. Master went on to say, "But this has also created the human beings we have today, and in the long run, it is inevitable that nature will be controlled by human beings. ”

"Isn't that the aura going to be less and less in the future? Are there fewer and fewer people who can achieve cultivation? ”

"At this time, it is inevitable that from the perspective of cultural, political, and economic factors alone, human faith is also weakening." Master said something that I couldn't understand for a while.

"Oh, then there shouldn't be many cultivators now, right?" I digressed and asked.

"Yes, there are not many people who practice hard now, and Taoism is known only as the 'Quanzhen' of cultivating the truth and the 'Zhengyi' of entering the WTO." Master sighed.

"Xiaofeng, while we are in the mountains and forests now, I will teach you how to vomit now." Master turned his head to look at me and said.

"Thank you, Master." I nodded. Master came to me, sat me cross-legged on the grass at the edge of the clearing, and began to teach me how to breathe in Reiki.

It was almost noon when we left the clearing and headed back to camp. Master told me that in the future, every morning and dusk, I should meditate according to the method of breathing taught today, and then after memorizing the sutras, I would meditate while meditating.

Memorizing scriptures silently is not like memorizing scriptures in school, where you memorize them smoothly and then recite them. Instead, you have to read every word and write that word in your mind, so that it can be regarded as a practice.

I immediately felt that it must be very difficult to memorize the scriptures in this way. The master also said, "Xiaofeng, if you can persevere, you will be able to become a teacher in less than three years." But if you can't persevere, then it doesn't matter, you can only be an outer disciple. I asked Master, "What do you mean by being an outer disciple?" The master replied, "The outer disciple means that you are my disciple, but not the disciple of the Zhongtian Ziwei Palace. You can't claim to be a member of the Zhongtian Ziwei Palace, and you can't get the conferral, so you can't perform the Ziwei Dao Method. Master also comforted me and said, "Cultivation is already difficult and hard, and if you don't have that perseverance and perseverance, you won't naturally have that spiritual root blessing." If you really can't persevere, it doesn't matter, people live in the world, and they can still have other pursuits. "After lunch, the third child said that the main burial chamber had been found, and the next thing could be completed by the four of them, so let Lao Hu send Master, Brother Zhang, and me back to Kuigu Township first.

The three of them packed their luggage, Lao Hu led the horse, and the group of four came to the place where Lao Sanzang had a carriage last time.

Lao Hu put on his saddle, set up the carriage, and drove away from the hillside. Hiding in the canopy, there was no word all the way.

The bumpy mountain road felt like walking for a long time, and not long after the road was a little smoother, we returned to the street of Kuigu Township.

After getting out of the carriage, Lao Hu said goodbye to us, and the three of them returned to the hotel where they stayed the day before yesterday. Back in the hotel room, Brother Zhang took a shower first, and then I followed suit, and then turned on the TV in the room to watch.

On the side, Brother Zhang was lying on the bed resting, not knowing what he was thinking. When I was bored, I remembered the crape myrtle Taoist scripture, and then took it out of my backpack and looked through it.

The book is turned from left to right, and the slightly harder cover reads the words "Ziwei Taoist Sutra", and a few small characters below: Dongyangzi transcription.

Dongyang is the master's road name, and I think it was copied by the master himself. Turning the first page, I saw it written vertically from right to left.

Da Luo Tianque, Ziwei Star Palace. It is high in the North Pole, in the middle of the sky. The Buddha's golden wheel is blazing, and the Tao is called Jade Dou Xuanzun.

Xuanji Jade Hengqi Seven Politics, the total heaven and earth. The sun, moon and stars are about four o'clock, and the ecliptic purple wall is traveled. Master of Vientiane, ruler of the heavens.

Great compassion and great wishes, great saints and great mercy. The Master of the Ten Thousand Stars, the Emperor of the Infinite Yuan. Zhongtian Ziwei, the Emperor of the Arctic. I struggled to read the traditional Chinese characters without punctuation, but I could barely understand them, so I turned to the second page and continued to read them.

I haven't been reading the second page for a long time, and I feel that I can't understand it at all, I can understand a single word, but I don't know what it means when I put it together.

Then I felt that my eyes were sore, my brain was confused, and I couldn't continue to look at it. Put down the crape myrtle Sutra and came to the window, wanting to rest his eyes.

The hostel we stayed in was a three-storey building and our room was on the second floor. Looking out of the window here, you can see a mess of tiled houses outside, and the middle of the house is more than a meter wide, and several children are chasing and playing on the side of the road, and the sound of laughter and noise is faintly discernible.

Looking into the distance, behind the house is a flat field, green, presumably planted rape or wheat.

There are some trees scattered around the field, and the specific species is too far away to be seen. Mountains began to appear in the distance, first small hills, then tall peaks, behind which only ethereal and vague mountains could be seen.

I don't know if we were on top of those peaks two days ago. Just as I was looking into the distance and thinking, there was a knock on the door behind me

"Knock knock," I turned around and saw that Brother Zhang had also turned over, he casually took his coat and put it on, and went to open the door.

Master's voice came from outside the door, and he spoke.

"Xiao Zhang, shout Xiaofeng, let's go out to eat." When Brother Zhang opened the door, I had already returned to the bedside, put the book in my backpack, and I replied when I heard Master's words.

"Oh! Yes, Master, here I am. Then he walked towards the door. Brother Zhang heard my reply and went straight out of the door, and I followed closely behind and closed the door casually.

When Master saw me come out, he said, "Everyone has worked hard in the past two days, let's go find a place to have a good meal." "Brother Zhang and I have no opinion, a group of three people went out of the hotel, walked around the street, and looked for several stores before seeing a good restaurant.

There is no signboard in this shop, but a few tables are placed outside, and when you enter the store, the proprietress asks what you want to eat in the local dialect.

The master spoke not very standard Mandarin, and the proprietress also introduced us to the dishes in Mandarin with a local accent.

The dishes are washed and put on the shelves, and the customers choose what they want to eat and how they want to cook them.

The master ordered four dishes and one soup, and the proprietress happily went to the back kitchen with lettuce. After the three of us sat down and waited for the food to be served, the proprietress who came back from the back kitchen poured boiling water for us.

Before the meal, Master said that we would return to the convoy early tomorrow morning, and after dinner, let Brother Zhang check the car parked in the yard.

After dinner, before it was completely dark, Master went back to his room, Brother Zhang checked the car, and I went back to my bed to meditate.

I am still not used to the posture of meditation, and not long after I sat down, I felt that my feet were pressed uncomfortably, but I still insisted on exhaling according to the method that Master taught me in the morning.

It didn't take long for Brother Zhang to return to his room, and when he saw that I was meditating, he didn't say anything, just turned on the TV and looked at it alone.

The next day, after a night's rest, my meditating feet recovered a lot. Because I went to bed early, I woke up at dawn today, but instead of washing, I continued to meditate and breathe.

Brother Zhang woke up half an hour later, and after washing up, the master also happened to come over, and the group went down to the second floor, and Brother Zhang came to the parking lot in the backyard together after leaving the room.

Begin the journey back to the convoy. The situation of going back is similar to when we came, two days later in the afternoon we returned to the Tianshun transport team, calculating the time, today should be the return of the third transport mission, and you can see the little ingots in the evening.